John, I do not think anything is "simple" nor can it be
relegated to just our earthly understanding...for sure. By
that, I mean, in order to understand the Bible, we also need to
understand the dark side of what God warns us to be upon our toes
(paraphraised) and know our enemy.

You spoke about the two groups that make up the enemy of
Revelation as having their seat in Roman Catholism and in
Islam. So, with that, I decided to go back to what I had
heard some time ago when I was researching the goddesses and gods
of mythology. You are absolutely correct in the fact that
Mary and even the terms Magdalene, Maddona are part of the belief
system of these two groups....yes, even Islam.
Mohammed had a daughter named Maddona, didn't he? Course it
all goes back to Satan and those that followed him.

What I found very interesting is that this Queen of Heaven, which
Jeremiah 10, among other prophets, warned the Children of Israel
NOT to have anything to do with (do not bake cakes to her
and worship her) has many names and folklore depending on
the locale. The Hebrews, when they went to Babylon didn't
all remain true to God like Daniel and his friends did.
Instead they returned to Israel bringing their Babylonian mixture
of Occultic Hebrew teaching with them. Thus, we have the
very priests that tried to trap the Lord Jesus Christ but couldn't
so decided that He must be killed. Course that was Satan's
plan all along; to put a stop to the Redeemption that our Redeemer
purschased for us by shedding His blood on the cross.
That priesthood is alive and well to this day, vestments and
all. Even the head-dress of the Fish god Dagon continues to
be used. Nothing has really changed.

This goddess has many names besides the Queen of Heaven. She
is well known as Lilith. She is also known as Stella
Maris (the Star of the Sea) Is this a relationship to the
sea also Leviathian? That is another part of Satan
and is referred to as the female part of Satan.
That makes me think of this year as The Year of The Dragon as
being the designated time that this demonic being will be
coming out of the sea. We see many pictures of goddess
representations that seem to be part male and female.
Even a Lion God has now been judged to be more female than
male. It is these allurring female goddess that appeal
to the occult worship that is taking place within these
groups. The Lord clearly has told us to have no other gods
before Him. Apparently, there were many of these demons that
claimed the title of gods. Lilth is also known as a Moon
Goddess. Whoa! Did it say "Moon"?
The Moon and the Star are both part of the Islamic flags,
right? As you said, the promise of all of these goddess when
Islamic men die as martyrs is very appealing to men that don't
seem to have much else to live for than death and a future harem.

http://www.thaliatook.com/AMGG/virginmary.html

Here is a copy & paste from another link below.

LILITH/LILITHU (Hebrew, Babylonia, Sumeria): Moon Goddess; the
patroness of witches; female principle of the universe; demon
goddess to the Jews and Christians. Her sacred bird was the owl.
Her name may have come from the Sumerio-Babylonian goddess
Belit-ili or Belili. A tablet from Ur, about 2,000 BCE, mentions
the name Lillake. Protectress of all pregnant women, mothers, and
children. Wisdom, regeneration, enticing sorcery, feminine allure,
erotic dreams, forbidden delights, the dangerous seductive
qualities of the Moon (p. 281).
http://lafondd.tripod.com/Lilith.html

I noticed that she is also a Vampire and what is being fed to our
very young big time now through the books about the love
story of a human and a vampire? Everything is so timely.

Notice the picture below. That is the Sacred Spiral.
Such a Spiral appeared over Norway not so long ago which left
people clueless to what it was or what it meant. Course
those in the 'know' were not in the dark about it. Norway is
also where the underground Seed Bank is located.

Some reliefs show her lower half as being the body of a serpent or
she is shown as a serpent with the head and breasts of a
woman. Lilthe is also seen as the serpent that swallows it's
own tail.

http://www.sacredspiral.com/articles/lm/lilith.htm

So, I say all of this, that your view of the a/c and false
prophet seem to be inter-twined in a very twisted, dark, past that
is known as the Illuminati these days we are now living. I
don't believe anyone dare be completely dogmatic of who is whom
because of the tentacles (your term) of the Babylonian Hiaracy
that includes religious and political.